Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private
equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake
City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Yet when it came to his considerable personal wealth, Mr. Romney never
really left Bain.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated
a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of
Bain’s profits ever since, bringing the Romney ... 阅读全帖

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/us/politics/retirement-deal-k
Buyout Profits Keep Flowing to Romney
Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private
equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake
City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Yet when it came to his considerable personal wealth, Mr. Romney never
really left Bain.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated
a retirement agreemen... 阅读全帖

苦逼弱智男对Romney的支持是嗷嗷的。http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayint66IUs
Romney reveals he pays about 15% in taxes
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:04 AM EST, Wed January 18, 2012
(CNN) -- Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney revealed Tuesday
that he pays about a 15% income tax rate but continued to resist calls by
his rivals to release his tax returns.
Romney said his annual income is "overwhelmingly from investments" rather
than ordinary income, which is taxed at a higher rate. Former House ... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney, his presidential aspirations suddenly endangered by Newt
Gingrich’s rapid resurgence, is employing aggressive new arguments in an
effort to disqualify Mr. Gingrich as a credible choice to Republicans,
calling him “zany” in an interview on Wednesday and questioning his
commitment to free enterprise.
But in an acknowledgment that he might not be able to reverse Mr. Gingrich’
s momentum quickly, Mr. Romney and his team are bracing for a far rougher
slog through the early Republican nom... 阅读全帖

Dump Romney; Nominate Paul
August 07, 2012 AFP
Dump Romney; Nominate Ron Paul
By Michael Collins Piper
Because there are real doubts that presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney has what
it takes to displace the current White House occupant in the general
election, there are some Republicans who have a message for the delegates to
the forthcoming GOP National Convention: Dump Romney and nominate Rep. Ron
Paul (R-Texas).
In stark contrast to outspoken populist Paul, whose integrity is undoubted,
whose... 阅读全帖

Romney Stance On Gay Rights? It's Complicated
by TOVIA SMITHhttp://www.npr.org/2011/12/12/143590615/romney-stance-on-gay-ri
issues-its-complicated
December 12, 2011
Mitt Romney's position on gay rights doesn't quite lend itself to a
bumper
sticker. Depending on whom you ask, it is either too thoughtful and
nuanced,
or too inconsistent and politically expedient. Either way, it's
definitely
got the GOP presidential candidate on the defensive.
There was a reminder of that Monday when Mitt Romney w... 阅读全帖

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/265805-opin
Opinion: A Romney win would be a victory for shameless cynicism
By Juan Williams - 11/05/12 05:00 AM ET
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If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday,
it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political
campaigns in American history.
It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
It is even harder to be a Republican in the aftermath of President Bush’s
still widel... 阅读全帖

By JEFF ZELENY
¶ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Mitt Romney fought back a vigorous challenge
from Rick Santorum in Michigan on Tuesday, narrowly carrying his native
state, and won the Arizona primary in a pair of contests that reasserted his
control over the Republican presidential race as it advances to critical
Super Tuesday contests next week.
¶ His victory over Mr. Santorum here in Michigan was far from
commanding, but it was most likely sufficient to dampen the rising clamor
from across the ... 阅读全帖

Biden, Romney spar like it's fall 2012
December 23, 2011
By JIM KUHNHENN and KASIE HUNT
Associated Press
TILTON, N.H. (AP) — It's an opening salvo of the presidential campaign,
minus actual presidential candidates.
Vice President Joe Biden unleashed a biting critique of Mitt Romney's
policies Friday and the Republican came swiftly back at him — a full-
contact preview of what the general election might look like should Romney
win the GOP nomination to challenge President Barack Obama.
All this, ... 阅读全帖

On May 30th, I made a prediction that shocked the readers of TownHall. I
predicted a Romney landslide- with Obama leading in every poll.
I did not make that prediction as a political columnist, or as the former
Libertarian Presidential contender, or the 2008 Libertarian Vice
Presidential nominee. I relied on my career as a Las Vegas oddsmaker. Long
before I got into politics, I started out as the Network Oddsmaker and NFL
Analyst for CNBC (then known as Financial News Network). I've made my livi... 阅读全帖

On May 30th, I made a prediction that shocked the readers of TownHall. I
predicted a Romney landslide- with Obama leading in every poll.
I did not make that prediction as a political columnist, or as the former
Libertarian Presidential contender, or the 2008 Libertarian Vice
Presidential nominee. I relied on my career as a Las Vegas oddsmaker. Long
before I got into politics, I started out as the Network Oddsmaker and NFL
Analyst for CNBC (then known as Financial News Network). I've made my livi... 阅读全帖

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-14/mitt-romney-s-worst-we
Mitt Romney’s Worst Week Ever: Three Explanations
Mitt Romney has been under siege this week, not just from reporters but from
some fellow Republicans. His troubles have three main sources.
First, the candidate himself. One example suffices here: his perplexing
failure, many years ago when he first decided to run for president, to move
his fortune out of Switzerland and the Caribbean, two places synonymous with
financial subterfuge,... 阅读全帖

节选，“I wish my moderate Republican friends would simply be honest. They
all say they're voting for Romney because of his economic policies (tenuous
and ill-formed as they are), and that they disagree with him on gay rights.
Fine. Then look me in the eye, speak with a level clear voice, and say, "My
taxes and take-home pay mean more than your fundamental civil rights, the
sanctity of your marriage, your right to visit an ailing spouse in the
hospital, your dignity as a citizen of this country, you... 阅读全帖

January 17, 2012
Is Nancy Pelosi trying to use reverse psychology on Republican voters?
Suspend disbelief for a moment, and pretend that Pelosi knows how to use
reverse psychology.
If that is difficult for you to do, then pretend that Pelosi read about
reverse psychology in Psychology Today while waiting for a botox treatment.
Now keep that thought in mind as you read the following excerpt from
Politico:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political
grenades at Mitt Rom... 阅读全帖

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made $
42.7 million over the past two years and paid $6.2 million in taxes,
according to documents released Tuesday by his campaign.
Romney and his wife, Ann, filed a joint 1040 reporting $21.7 million in 2010
income and $3 million in federal taxes. They also said their 2011 income
was $21 million and tax bill was $3.2 million.
Over the two years, Romney's effective tax rate -- the percentage of his
income that he owed in feder... 阅读全帖

Washington: Mitt Romney rolled to primary victories in Virginia, Vermont and
home-state Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, reaching for a decisive
advantage in the most turbulent race for the Republican presidential
nomination in a generation.
But his rivals countered crisply. Rick Santorum won in Tennessee and led in
Oklahoma, while Newt Gingrich scored a home-field win in Georgia - fresh
evidence that they retain the ability to outpace the former Massachusetts
senator in parts of the country desp... 阅读全帖

By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
August 26, 2012
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — On the eve of their national party conventions, Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a close race to amass the requisite 270
Electoral College votes for victory. And the contest is exactly where it was
at the start of the long, volatile summer: focused on seven states that are
up for grabs.
Neither candidate has a significant advantage in Colorado, Florida, Iowa,
Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia, which offer a ... 阅读全帖

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/24/ev
On “60 Minutes” last night, Mitt Romney said it again. “I want to keep
the current progressivity in the code. There should be no tax reduction for
high income people.”
You’ve heard Romney say this — or some variant of it –dozens of times
before. What’s changed since then is that Romney has admitted that his tax
cuts, if they’re not going to add to the deficit, will have to increase
taxes on people he defines as middle income and cut... 阅读全帖

By NEIL KING JR.
More than half a year after his election loss, Mitt Romney is putting a
tentative foot back onto the public stage.
Restless, a little wistful and sharply critical of President Barack Obama's
second term, Mr. Romney said in an interview that he plans to re-emerge in
ways that will "help shape national priorities."
As a first step, the former Republican presidential nominee plans to welcome
200 friends and supporters to a three-day summit next week that he will
host at a Utah moun... 阅读全帖

In the comment section of this article:http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-gets-emotional-in-fl
Dan Maloy · Top Commenter
Russell Schaffer -
Are you brave? Do you have courage? Are you willing to admit to us that
perhaps you may not know everything you think you know? Well, if you're
brave, like you claim, read this below. If you're a coward, you'd better
stop reading here.
Here is the question that was asked that generated the Romney "47%"
statement plus the ENTIRE Romney quote, not som... 阅读全帖

October 30, 2012 Doug Johnson
The new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of
1,000 likely Ohio voters – taken from last Monday through Thursday – shows
Obama ahead of Romney by 1 percentage point, 49 percent to 48 percent. That
represents a 3-point swing in Obama’s direction from a week ago but
reflects a race that remains statistically tied. Even the swing is within
the margin of error, so it is possible the candidates were tied last week
when Romney lead by 2 perc... 阅读全帖

奥巴马没戏了。http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/06/investing/stocks-election-obama
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama and Mitt Romney may be in a dead heat
as Americans head to the polls on Election Day, but the former
Massachusetts governor is an overwhelming favorite of Wall Street.
Twelve out of 18 investment strategists and money managers surveyed by
CNNMoney said the stock market would perform better with Romney in the White
House than during a second Obama term.
As the country struggles with tepi... 阅读全帖

输了终于可以随便讲话，不担心得罪人了http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/14/reports-romney-
(CNN) – Mitt Romney told donors on a call Wednesday that President Barack
Obama outmatched him by offering "gifts" to African-Americans, Hispanics and
young voters, according to various news outlets.
The former Republican nominee also made similar arguments on another call
earlier in the day, CNN confirmed.
"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members
of his base coalition, give them ... 阅读全帖

Obama Isn't Working: Mitt Romney adapts Maggie Thatcher slogan that
destroyed her opponents at election
If it gets results, do it again. And if it means a change of government,
definitely do it again.
Mitt Romney has adapted a poster and slogan used by former British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher to boost his Republican presidential bid.
Mr Romney is likening President Obama's America to the economic blight that
dogged late 1970s Britain.
The frontrunner: Mitt Romney after meeting a group of ... 阅读全帖

Did Wall Street Just Give Up on Romney?
Published: Tuesday, 6 Nov 2012 | 3:36 AM ET Text Size
By: John Carney
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
Getty Images
Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Toledo.
Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
i... 阅读全帖

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332595/romney-s-optimism
Romney’s Optimism Will Win
It’s no year for a big-government pessimist.
By Larry Kudlow
Putting aside all the voter models, there’s one overlooked point worth
making with Election Day at hand. Most times in American politics, optimists
win, and pessimists lose. I know that’s not always the case. And sometimes
it’s hard to distinguish between the two. But in this election, I believe
Mitt Romney is the optimist, and Barack Obama is th... 阅读全帖

网上放出了Romney 2002年为gay pride做的宣传画
不过Romney矢口否认，说不知道这画从哪来的。http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/republican-debate-mitt
CONCORD, NH -- Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Sunday disavowed a
flyer that claimed he supported "equal rights" for gay citizens and has long
been reported to have been distributed by the Massachusetts Republican
during his 2002 campaign for governor.
Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman, told The Huffington Post that the
flyers were not official literature from ... 阅读全帖

All smart ones think he will lose.
Did Wall Street Just Give Up on Romney?
Published: Tuesday, 6 Nov 2012 | 3:36 AM ET Text Size
By: John Carney
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
in different jobs on W... 阅读全帖

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry apologized this morning amid a growing media
storm over the way she and her guests made fun of Mitt Romney's adopted
grandchild -- who happens to be black.
On her weekend show, the African-American host and her panelists started
laughing almost immediately in the segment, in a way that made me cringe.
The object of their derision, cloaked as it was in pointed humor? A Romney
family photo, with the grandchild perched on Romney's knee.
Hysterical, huh?
Yes, Harris-Perr... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney will address the National Rifle Association's annual meeting
later this week, a speech that comes at a crucial time for the candidate who
is working to appeal to the conservative base of his party as he inches
closer to clinching the Republican nomination.
Romney, who tells voters on the campaign trail that he believes "we have all
the laws we need" in regard to gun control, revealed for the first time
just over a month ago that he owns two shotguns. When asked about his stance
on g... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney Discloses Contributions to Antigay Groups
By Lucas Grindley
MITT ROMNEY ISN'T WORKING X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Mitt Romney
Tax returns unveiled by Mitt Romney today show contributions to two antigay
organizations, including one that campaigned against a transgender rights
bill by implying trans people are sexual predators.
The Human Rights Campaign points out a report by CNN that says Romney's
charitable foundation gave at least $35,000 to antigay groups in 2010, with
$10,000 goin... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney closed the Republican National Convention in Tampa with his
acceptance speech Thursday night, speaking the language of religious
conservatives when he promised to “honor the institution of marriage” if
elected president.
The former Massachusetts governor devoted a large chunk of the almost 40-
minute speech to his personal biography and an attempt to close his campaign
’s gap with women voters. He talked about how his father, former Michigan
Governor George Romney, supported his moth... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney Doesn't Think Homosexuals Should Be Allowed to Have Children
by Reno Berkeley October 26, 2012 06:11 PM EDT
In the wake of new revelations alleging that governor Mitt Romney defied
Massachusetts' high court by rejecting birth certificates for gay parents,
it's no surprise that he doesn't believe homosexuals shouldn't have kids.
Romney is so against gay parenthood, that he did his best to sabotage the
future of those children born to gay parents during his governorship.
Mitt Romney s... 阅读全帖

Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
in different jobs on Wall Street today the message I picked up was almost
universal: The president will be re-elected tomorrow.
Many of those with whom I spoke—all of whom spoke on the condit... 阅读全帖

Jay Cost
November 2, 2012 6:00 AM
When I started making election predictions eight years ago, I had a very
different perspective than I do today. I knew relatively little about the
history of presidential elections or the geography of American politics. I
had a good background in political science and statistics. So,
unsurprisingly in retrospect, I focused on drawing confidence intervals from
poll averages.
Since then, I have learned substantially more history, soured somewhat on
political scien... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney Is Losing The Election That Matters
Jason Sattler
If you average all the national polls together, Mitt Romney has a slight
lead over President Obama — anywhere from .01 percent to .09 percent.
But if you look at the swing states where the race is being decided, Mitt
Romney is losing — and he’s never been ahead.
As The New Republic’s Nate Cohn wrote Thursday morning, “With just 12 days
to go, every day without signs of Romney making gains in Ohio, Wisconsin,
or Nevada counts as a win ... 阅读全帖

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney made a surprise appearance on Fox host Brian
Kilmeade's radio show Thursday morning to respond to a lengthy Washington
Post story on his time as a prep-school prankster and occasional bully of
closeted gay students.
"They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school,"
Romney said. "And they describe some that you just say to yourself, back in
high school I just did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or
offended by it, obviously I apolog... 阅读全帖

On Labor Day, 1980, Jimmy Carter’s presidential re-election campaign was
ahead by 4 points. On November 4, 1980, the incumbent lost by 10 points. As
I learned firsthand back then, a lot can happen in two months.
Today, as the RealClearPolitics average shows Mitt Romney down by less than
a point in his White House bid, the challenger needs “the fierce urgency of
now,” to borrow a phrase often used by Barack Obama in 2008--although he
hasn’t used it much since. Ronald Reagan had that sense of ur... 阅读全帖

The Romney campaign is in trouble
Posted by Ezra Klein on September 17, 2012 at 10:54 am
There are two sure signs a campaign is in trouble. The first is that it
begins changing its strategy rapidly and erratically. The second is that it
begins attacking its strategists fiercely and
First came the changes in strategy. It went from doing everything possible
to assure a “referendum” election to picking Paul Ryan as the vice
presidential nominee and going for a choice election. It went from focusing... 阅读全帖

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/us-usa-campaign-idINBR
Reuter : Romney struggles to steady campaign after secret videos
WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:50am IST
(Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney struggled on Tuesday to steady his
reeling White House campaign after a secretly recorded video showed him
dismissing President Barack Obama's supporters as victims who are too
dependent on government.
The video from a closed-door fundraiser in Florida in May sparked a new wave
of criticism of... 阅读全帖

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/
In a video posted yesterday, Mitt Romney slammed the people who support
President Obama, saying they are most likely "dependent on government."
Romney's comments were recorded as he spoke at to an exclusive group of
donors at a private meeting. Obama's fans think of themselves as "victims,"
he said. They believe they are "entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing,
to you name it." He added, "My job is not to worry about those pe... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie expressed confidence Monday night that
Republican voters would turn up at the polls in greater numbers than
Democrats this election year, giving Romney a good chance to win several
swing states that Obama took in 2008.
"We have momentum and we're going to capitalize on that," he told Fox News'
Sean Hannity, predicting "a big, big win" for the GOP nominee in
Pennsylvania and Virginia, where Romney has been focusing much of his time
and money in the closing days of... 阅读全帖

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/romney-middle-income-200k-250k-15
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income
Americans.
But how does he define "middle-income"? The Republican presidential nominee
defined it Friday as income of $200,000 to $250,000 a year and less.
The definition of "middle income" or the "middle class" is politically
charged as Romney and President Barack Obama fight to win over working-class
voters. Romney would be among the wealthiest presidents, if... 阅读全帖

Obama还是有压力了。http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-chinese-dissident-che
Romney: Chinese dissident Chen’s departure from American embassy was ‘a
dark day for freedom’
Mitt Romney has joined critics of the Obama administration's handling of
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, suggesting that American diplomats "
failed" to protect Chen from his government.
Speaking at a campaign event in Portsmouth, Va., Romney cited "disturbing"
and "troubling" news reports about the case and said it appeared... 阅读全帖

Mitt Romney Is a NOM Donor, Document Shows
By Lucas Grindley
MITT ROMNEY NOM LOGO X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Mitt Romney has not only signed a pledge from the National Organization for
marriage to fight for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, he's also given
money to the antigay group's causes, according to a document circulated by
the Human Rights Campaign.
HRC posted a copy of a Federal Election Commission filing from the Alabama-
based Free and Strong America PAC, run by the Romney campai... 阅读全帖

Rick Perry paints Mitt Romney as job killer
By James Oliphant
December 20, 2011, 1:07 p.m.
Mitt Romney believes his background in the private sector is an asset. Rick
Perry sees it as a liability—and in a new ad tries to portray Romney’s
venture capital work as a job destroyer.
It’s the most aggressive ad, which also paints Newt Gingrich as an
influence peddler for hire, that Perry has unleashed against Romney yet.
The ad, titled “Three Streets,” plays off a Los Angeles Times article last
month ... 阅读全帖